When you write a text, or speak carefully, and want the sentences to "flow" from one to another, you frequently use fancy words to start them, like "however", "furthermore", "nevertheless". Such "fancy start words" are sometimes called conjunctive adverbs or connectors.

They indicate a relation of the sentence they start with stuff already said, e.g. consequence, completion, opposition, etc. Here are main connectors with English counterparts:

relation

English

Croatian

consequence

"therefore"

dakle, prema tome

notconsequence

"on the contrary"

naprotiv, nasuprot tome

expected

"of course", "naturally"

dakako, naravno

notexpected

"nevertheless"

usprkos tome, ipak

opposition

"however"

međutim, no

expanding

"furthermore", "besides"

nadaljë, osim toga

emphasis

"in fact"

zapravo

similarity

"likewise"

slično, isto tako

conclusion

"finally"

konačno, na kraju

change of subject

?

nego(in coll. speech)

All such "starts" are usually separated by a comma (,) from the rest of the sentence. Some examples:

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Anonymous
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I hate "dakle" in Croatian, or "znaci" People have started using both of this as valley girls in American English use "like" If you listen to interviews on TV, it is everywhere and to me, makes people sound totally stupid. Learners of Croatian, please avoid overuse of these words!!

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